Women in peace and security
Since UN Security Council Resolution 1325 was adopted 10 years ago, NATO has been promoting the role of women in conflict resolution and peace-building in a comprehensive way, both within its military operations and its organizational structure.
The Alliance has produced a directive for guiding the implementation of UNSCR 1325 throughout NATO’s military structure. It is also mainstreaming gender-related education and training, especially for forces about to be deployed.
In Afghanistan, the role of gender advisors have been established at ISAF headquarters, helping to ensure that commanders of all levels take women’s perspectives into account when formulating their operational strategies. NATO and its partners are also deploying an increasing number of female soldiers.
At Headquarters, the Alliance has been striving to increase the number of female staff members, including at the decision-making level. The NATO Committee on Gender Perspectives was also created to promote gender mainstreaming as a means of making women’s, as well as men’s, concerns and experiences a part of the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of all policies, programmes and military operations.